Voting rights, marriage equality, gender discrimination and equality based on sexual preferences also were common answers.

“The biggest challenge to civil rights today is the inability of others to truly provide for latitude and understanding with regard to an individual’s beliefs when it comes to ‘social issues,’” Victor Juliana writes us in an email.

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